Vosyn's consumer media app, most of the screen blurred
Vosyn's consumer app, NDA-blurred. My work: the internal review tools.
Vosyn AI Handed off: 2024

Designing AI localization workflows for global media teams

The translation took seconds. Checking it took minutes. I spent an internship on the unglamorous half of an AI product: not generating the output, but making it cheap to trust.

Product designer Aug–Dec 2024
64→82 usability score (SUS)
28% less time on multi-step tasks
Usability tests, same tasks before and after.

The situation

Two panels. Reviewers kept losing their place between them.

I was brought in on Vosyn's internal translation screen. The real problem was reviewing its output.

Nobody complained about translation quality. They complained about finding out whether it was good.

The reframe

The unit is the check. Not the translation itself.

Timing reviewers on real files showed fast readers doing the same read three times, re-finding their place.

BeforeRecreation

Before: the original and its translation open one at a time, so the translation is judged against a memory of the original. After: both side by side, with the literally translated idiom flagged.

Reviewed from memory, then side by side.

Review tool

One view, both texts. The system points at what needs a human.

Each flag names a failure a reviewer can judge in one read, not a confidence score they can't check.

2 of 5 need a humanRecreation

Video Q&A

Answers cite sources. Nothing arrives unattributed.

Ask about a stretch of video, and the answer names the segment it came from.

02:10Recreation

A grounded answer can be disagreed with. An ungrounded one can only be believed.

Reflection

Generating is half. Deciding is the other half.

Small changes to workflow structure beat new features. Reducing the cost of verification is a product strategy, not a polish task.

Mine
  • Interaction design
  • UI design
  • Prototyping
  • Workflow analysis
Shared
  • User researchwith UX researcher
  • Product scopewith PM
  • Nearby screenswith 2 designers
Not mine
  • Formal usability testing
  • Translation models
  • Platform architecture
An internship; review flags and video Q&A were fully my calls.
Caveat:

Numbers are from usability testing, not production telemetry. Flags only catch failure modes we defined; they don't make an unreviewed file safe.

Role
Product Designer
Team
Product Designer (Me), 2 Designers, UX Researcher, Product Manager, 2 Developers
Timeline
Aug–Dec 2024
Tools
Figma (FigJam + Design), Balsamiq, Storybook, UserTesting